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1000-niche-interests · 2 years

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My OCs

I have a few OCs I’m also willing to write for! Specifically, we have:

Witcher OCs:

School of the Bear Witcher Vailyn (yes, I made her in skyrim at one point)

Aster, the “Winter Witch”, her Sorceress lover

picrew link: https://picrew.me/image_maker/1493001

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I also have some modern day/slice of life ocs, if that’s more your jam.

Meet Rebecca “Becca” Moore, she/her, 27:

and Jaime Anderson, she/her, 27, Becca’s roommate and girlfriend:

meiker links: https://meiker.io/play/14011/online.html

https://meiker.io/play/13405/online.html

Warrior Queen of Kalin, Sara Penderghast:

Annabell, Sara’s vampire soulmate whom I love very much.

SUPERHERO OCS:

I’ll probably get into explaining the whole Wardens of the World thing in a later post but, Yes I have a team of superhero ocs. The ones I’m willing to write for are:

Desya Vasilyeva, “Cold Shoulder”. Ice powers, former russian ice skater. I’ll make a picrew of all the Wardens someday, lol, but she’s blonde, athletic, and the second in command of the Wardens. She’s also my favorite to write for in the Wardens so.... idk why I don’t have a picture. I should fix that...

Marisa Moran, “Tempest”. Hydrokinesis, was shunned by her family when her powers appeared so she ended up basically being raised by the government. The Wardens are her first family but she’s also recently falling for a civilian author named Grace... Picrew link: https://picrew.me/en/image_maker/1149121

Zaida Ahsman, “Nightbreaker” (why is her face claim Talia Ah Ghul? Because I CAN’T DRAW okay). Has invisibility, intangibility, and teleportation powers as long as she does it through shadows, which she can also control. She’s also in love with a telepath she’s secretly hiding from the *supervillain organization*, AURA. Basically Zaida is a walking spy thriller.

So, that’s everyone... for now.

Other members of the team include: Helios (leader, alien from space but also a man) Earthshaker and his daughter Faultline, Firebrand (she’s a bitch and I made her that way on purpose) and the Twister Twins (they’re twins, boy and girl. I love them but I’m not in the mood to horribly destroy their fictional lives right now). Also Grace, but she really deserves a separate post.

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And finally, my newest ocs, like VERY new so I'm interested to explore the stuff about them I haven't figured out yet:

Plague Doctor Katya, who also exists in a generic fantasy world where ALL doctors dress like plague doctors. For the aesthetic, probably... And safety... Anyway Katya takes great care to disguise her gender as a doctor so that her patients will listen to her... She feels many have a hard enough time listening to any doctor, let alone a woman. Anyway, one stormy day while Katya was traveling she met Ada, who's 13 year old brother had gotten stuck in a bear trap. Katya saved the boy, and his leg, and during her time with the family (just Ada and her brother Peter, since the parents were long dead) she and Ada sort of fell for each other. But Katya couldn't stay, her duty as a traveling physician more important to her than even love.

Still, she returns to Ada every winter, if not whenever she's in the area. Time and work keeps them apart, but they are still terribly in love.

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(I have so many lesbian OCS and! That's the way I like it)

#my ocs #oc vailyn #oc aster #oc becca #oc jaime #oc Annabell #oc Sara #Superhero Oc #Wardens of the World

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alwaysahiccupandastrid · 3 years

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His Dark Materials - Season 2 Episode 7 *FINALE* (Thoughts and Rambles)

We have a LOT to unpack here oh my god oh my god

When I say I was screaming and yelling during the episode, I mean I was LITERALLY screaming and yelling

This post is mostly screeching and capital letters, you’ve been warned

“So cold” “life or death meant nothing” - well shit. Accurate description of a Spectre attack damn

I didn’t know what those creepy noises were at first and I was sat here absolutely TERRIFIED because it was creepy as fuck. Then I realized it was cliff ghasts because they said something that I recognized from the book and I was like “oh shit”

Pan and Will talking is the sweetest omg

The fact that Pan told him that Lyra thinks he’s as brave as King Iorek Byrnison :’)

“She’s the best friend I’ve ever had” “You’re her best friend too” - STOP, MY HEART

Lyra was awake and heard the whole conversation :3

“I’m no longer an aeronaut” :( “I’m an insect” - LMAO

Hester and Lee’s banter remains my favourite thing and now it’s bittersweet tbh...

“You could never be an insect, Lee” “Okay, hare” - bless them

Marisa finding where Lyra was staying and then finding Lyra’s coat?? And crying with it pressed to her face?? :’(

In case I haven’t mentioned it already, I am incredibly gay for the witches/their aesthetic/costume. Absolutely beautiful queens, all of them

Oh hi, it’s Mary and the two kids!

The fact that Mary helped them find their adults :’)

Also, “We like you miss” - BLESS

I’m kind of confused as to whether the blue flower petals are important or if it’s just her smelling them? IDK

“I’m close to my father, it’s time I found him” - OOF OKAY UMM ARE YOU SURE

“I let my best friend down” - Noooo Lyra, no you didn’t! :( Your dad is a terrible parent and killed him, that’s not your fault!

“Maybe this is how I let you down” - Well done, Asriel and Marisa, you’ve fucked up a perfectly fine child is what you’ve done

Will telling Lyra that she hasn’t let him down :3

That witch turning up because she was trying to warn Marisa about the spectres, only for Marisa to torture and kill her... oof

FUCKING MONKEY I CAN’T DECIDE HOW I FEEL ABOUT HIM

“She’s MY daughter” - Okay, damn, lady...

“EVE. She’s the mother of all” - OH FUCK YOU TOLD HER. OH FUCK OH FUCK OH FUCK

THE SPECTRE ATE HER DÆMON OMG NO THIS IS HORRIFYING WTAF

Seriously, the way the witch went so grey and lifeless and just fell to her knees and down... Urgh, my stomach is turning

Just when I thought I hated the monkey again, he starts whimpering because he’s afraid of the Spectres :(

“Stop whimpering” - DAMN MARISA YOU ARE A STONE COLD BITCH HUH

Pan being the damn voice of reason and telling Lyra they should stay with the witches like yes, Lyra, listen to him for once!!!

Okay but why are the Magisterium soldiers lowkey dressed like German soldiers from one of the World Wars???

I’m not really surprised that BBC left out the detail of Ruta and Asriel fucking when she found him to be honest XD

So the witches think that the Æsahættr is a person but it’s actually the KNIFE. AND THEY DON’T REALIZE. RUTA YOU DON’T NEED TO GO ANYWHERE, IT’S LITERALLY RIGHT THERE

“...That’s not my dæmon.” “Run.” - OH SHIT OKAY MY WHOLE BODY JUST TENSED UP

So umm Lee got shot and FUCK NO FUCK NO I’M NOT READY FOR THIS EMOTIONALLY THANKS

I LITERALLY DO NOT WANT THIS TO HAPPEN OKAY

“You’re either with me or against me” Umm he’s your dæmon?!?!

THE WAY SHE SCREAMED AT HIM OH MY GOD SHE’S FUCKING TERRIFYING HOLY CRAP

“What are you frightened of?” - oh, I don’t know, Marisa, maybe because YOU FUCKING SCREECHED AT HIM. MAYBE HE’S FRIGHTENED OF YOU

Also I love the detail of Marisa getting onto her hands and knees, sort of crouching and mirroring the monkey’s body language. I just love the parallel

The way the monkey flinched from her when she went to touch him omg :( No dæmon should be THIS afraid of their person (or at all?!?!)

Honestly, I find this series’ portrayal of Marisa fascinating tbh

“We have to do whatever it takes to keep her safe” - Umm, like maybe drugging her and hiding her in a cave for months? 🤔

Also in case I didn’t say this before, the fact she has complete control of the Spectres is fucking scary and always has been from the very first time I read the books

Okay so Lee is fully aware that he’s going to die if he stays behind but he does it because he knows that it’s the best chance of making sure that Lyra ends up under the knife’s protection (because Jopari will find her). All Lee wants is for Lyra to be safe and that hurts my heart so much, he loves this child so much :’(

“I love that little girl like a daughter” - LEE STOP MY HEART IS ALREADY BREAKING AS IT IS

NO NO NO NO I AM NOT AND NEVER WILL BE READY

Oh hey Red PAN-da (sorry I know I keep repeating that joke but honestly LOOK AT HIM)

“Once I change, you’ll stop changing” - OH SHIT. So we’re having THAT conversation then

“What do you think you’ll be?” “A flea I hope” - LMFAO I LOVE IT

“Is it Will that’s changing you?” “I think” - FORESHADOWING FOR AMBER SPYGLASS ANYONE?!

All the meanwhile, while Lee is dying and shit is going down, Ms Mary Malone is just chilling in a cave on a mountain by a waterfall, just reading

I literally struggled to watch Lee’s final scenes. I literally didn’t want to watch it because I cried reading it in the book, and I knew I’d be the same here

The fact that Lee HATES taking away people’s lives but he says “it’s theirs or Lyra’s”... I love him. He loves her so much.

“Think about anything, think about bacon!” - LMFAO I LOVE YOU HESTER YOU ABSOLUTE GEM

THE BULLET CLIPPED HIS SCALP AND I HAD A HEART ATTACK

“This is my fault, isn’t it?” - NO HESTER NO DON’T YOU DARE BLAME YOURSELF DARLIN’, YOU ARE THE BEST AND WE LOVE YOU AND LEE LOVES YOU

I do this everytime I read the book and I did here even though I know what happens, but I was praying mentally that maybe Serafina would reach Lee in time... just maybe...

I’m really sitting here crying over Hester and Lee on a Sunday night, love that for me

Hester limping :(

“Don’t you go before I do” - FUCK YOU BBC AND PHILIP I’M SOBBING MY EYES OUT

“Oh how far we flew” - STOP IT. STOP IT RIGHT FUCKING NOW I SWEAR-

I literally yelled and cried out “NOOO” when Hester faded away and Lee died. I am so upset even though I KNEW it was coming. I am literally not okay.

Oh god no Will, now is not the time to be walking away from Lyra and that witch

Also why is that witch asleep on guard?? Come on, love, do better, it’s not like these are the two most important children in all the universes....

To be fair to Marisa, I’d feel pretty invincible if I were climbing up a mountain while the Spectres were guarding me/on my side

WILL AND JOHN FINALLY MET AHHHH

“I was told I’d find my father here” - YEAH AND THAT’S HIM WILL ASDFGHJKL;

I’m low-key disappointed that there’s no brawl between Will and Jopari here. Like they instantly recognize each other and... hmm. I know there has to be changes but still.

“Your mother, Will, where is she?” - Awww. John really didn’t stop loving her :’)

“My son... is the Knife Bearer” - oooooohhhhhhh

“You have a dæmon” - that’s right, Will. Don’t worry, you’ll get one next season

The way I audible went “oh shIT” when Mrs Coulter found Lyra fast asleep. Like I said, I knew what was going to happen but STILL

I’m not really surprised that those Spectres killed the witch who was supposed to be guarding Lyra and Will tbh like that’s what happens when only ONE witch guards two teenagers and that witch falls asleep

The way that Lyra panicked when she woke up and saw her mother stroking her cheek omg

Off topic but I’ve only just realized that Jopari has a fucking man-bun LMFAO OKAY

The fact that Jopari tried to get back to Will and Elaine but couldn’t will always hurt me

“And you chose these people over your family?” - I MEAN-

“I’ve thought about you every day.” - Awww

So John tells Will that he has to go to Asriel and bring him the knife, and he tells him all about the war that’s coming and I have LITERAL chills because I’m so ready

“And then we go home?” “... And then we go home.” - RIP MY HEART OUT, IT WOULD HURT LESS

“I’m not strong enough” - yes you are, Will! I promise you, you are! And Jopari says, “Both of us were brought here” - exactly! You were brought there for a reason by fate or whatever you want to call it!

“Your duty was to be my father” - WILL REALLY CAME FOR HIS DAD LIKE THAT I GUESS

“Look what you’ve become without me” - Oh my god, just when I thought I wasn’t going to cry again

JOPARI HUGGING WILL, SEEING THE SOLDIER AIMING, AND THEN PUTTING HIMSELF BETWEEN THEM SO HE TOOK THE BULLET INSTEAD OF WILL ASDFGHJKL;

So in the book, Jopari is killed by a scorned witch who had once asked him to be her lover, but he had turned her down (because of Elaine and Will obviously), and she kills Jopari in front of Will and then he kills her (I think?). But here it’s just a soldier leftover from the Lee vs Magisterium fight, so... yeah. Kind of a little peeved about the change personally but whatever I guess.

“The night is full of angels, they will guide you now” - AHHHHH

Also, might just be me, but maybe that line would have been slightly more impactful if the scene had taken place at night

This show really said “fuck healthy parental figures” I guess

Except Will’s mum, she’s the best and if anything were to happen to her we’d all riot

SAYAN KÖTÖR FADING AWAY NOOOO I HATE SEEING DÆMONS DIE

Okay, last little gripe, but I just wanted to say that in the book, Will doesn’t realize it’s his dad until literally the last second before his dad dies - like they both realize and then BAM, Jopari is killed. And while I do love the father-son reunion, I am kind of annoyed by the change because it was such a huge punch in the gut in the book that Will searches for so long for his dad, only to lose him the second he finds him.

Serafina finding Lee’s body and kissing his forehead was yet another punch in the gut, thanks Pullman/BBC/BadWolf

The fact that Will had to bury his dad :(

Also, WILL WEARING JOPARI’S JACKET OH MY GOD MY HEART

Oof that shot of his amputated fingers...

So the narration, when it started I thought it was Jopari at first, like from one of his letters... but then as it continued, I went “hang on”, and then I said outloud “wait, is that ASRIEL?!”

DID MARISA REALLY PUT LYRA IN A FUCKING TRUNK?!? BITCH ARE YOU OKAY?!?

Will putting his hood up like his dad did just hits differently

Okay so um ASRIEL HI I WASN’T EXPECTING TO SEE YOU THIS SEASON OH MY GOD THE SCREAM I LET OUT

HIS MONOLOGUE BY THE WAY IS FUCKING ART AND A MASTERPIECE BUT I WAS TOO BUSY CRYING OVER JAMES MCAVOY TO WRITE THE WHOLE MONOLOGUE DOWN

Oh, hi Stelmaria!

It always makes me scream that this man is not only Lord Asriel now but he’s also fucking Mr Tumnus and MOTHERFUCKING BILL DENBROUGH LIKE HOW IS THIS MAN INVOLVED IN SO MANY OF MY FANDOMS?!?

ANGELS ANGELS OH MY FUCKING GOD-

“We stand with you, Asriel Belacqua” - AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

“Let us prepare for war” - FUUUUUUUUCK

(I was deadly serious when I said this was just me screaming and crying by the way)

I’m still reeling over the fact that Marisa put her daughter in a fucking trunk. Like I get you can’t exactly carry a drugged child about in the open but Jesus Christ, love, really?!?

Also Ruth Wilson / Marisa Coulter in a headscarf? *chef kiss*

The way that the screen went to black as she put the lid on the trunk down - SHIT OH SHIT GOOSEBUMPS

THE CREDIT SONG IS SO BEAUTIFUL BECAUSE IT HAS FUCKING ANGELS NOW I’M-

I WASN’T EXPECTING THE POST CREDITS SCENE OH MY GOD

ROGER?! ROGER! IT’S ROGER I’M NOT OKAY-

BBC YOU CANNOT JUST DROP THAT ON US LIKE THAT FUCK-

“What is this place?” - I’M SCREAMING SO LOUD I CAN’T HOLD IT IN

For anyone unaware, the reason I’m screaming so loud over the post-credits scene is because in TAS, while Lyra is drugged and in a groggy sleep, she has these visions of Roger talking to her from the Land of the Dead, which then later leads to her and Will actually GOING to the Land of the Dead and... well, the rest is even HUGER spoilers but YEAH I’M NOT OKAY.

Honestly, I’m just so happy and emotional because I’ve been waiting over a decade for a decent adaptation of not only NL but for TSK and TAS too, and we’re 2/3 there now. Just one more book/series to go... I wish we could have it now. I really hope that filming for the final one starts ASAP because if we have to wait two years just to see the conclusion to this series, I might cry.

This series is so amazing, and this season especially has been so incredible to watch. It’s been the highlight of my week for seven weeks, and I have no idea what I’ll do with my Sundays now that it’s over. I’ve asked for the DVD for S2 for my birthday already (since it comes out 29th December and my birthday is 13th January... just saying), and words can’t describe how much I do love this series. I know it sounds hollow since I say it about so many things I’m into, but this was such a huge part of my childhood and it’s one of my favourite fantasy series of all time. It’s truly one of the most incredible pieces of literature and now it’s making for incredible television... I love it so much.

#hdm #his dark materials #lyra belacqua #lyra silvertongue #marisa coulter #will parry #lee scoresby #hester #pantalaimon #jopari #john parry #lord asriel #serafina pekkala

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mayohigan-orange · 3 years

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Dash Games: answer 21 Qs and tag 21 people

Tagged by: Stolen from: @twinfoxtails

Tagging: What do you mean it’s not Munday anymore? Look, time is just a concept.

Name: Josh

Nickname: I generally go by Cobalt, but a fair few people around here just call me Chen-mun. ...Hmm. If you turned around around, you’d get Munchen...

Birth date: 15/3

Height: 5′11″

Time: 7:45 P.M.

Favorite music genre: Video game music, mostly. Outside of that, I like some rock.

Favorite Bands: Probably Queen

Favorite Movie: I mean, c’mon. You can’t expect me to pick just one! I guess right now I’d say Free Guy and Knives Out.

Preferred weather: Cloudy or rainy. The sun can go suck a nut.

Pets: Got 2 cats~ One is a butt and the other’s a little ball of anxiety and nervousness.

Dream car: I mean, I don’t have a license. Like, not even a learner’s one, or at least, I have one, but it’s expired.

Dream vacation: I’d say Japan, but it’s very different there and I don’t know Japanese, so I guess Canada, eh?

Cooking skills: I can cook ready meals. My experience in actually making food though... I can make mashed potatoes. ...That’s about it.

Hobbies: Video Games, RPing, pretending to be a writer, making terrible meme-y edits of pictures, and memes in general.

Drink of choice: Pepsi Max, generally

Do I get asks: Eh, the occasional one or two.

Other blogs: I’ve got quite a few. Like, the Marisa blog, an AU/Canon Divergent Sasuke, Joker (Persona, not Batman)

Lucky Number: 11.

Ideal pet: Eh, I dunno, I’m pretty happy with cats.

Languages: English, with little bits of weeby Japanese

Fun Fact: Your flies are undone.

#mun info #mun stuff #out of catnip

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decagon95 · 4 years

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Back in the day, I had made ocs that weren’t Gems, if you can believe it. This is one of them!

This is Marisa, self-proclaimed Queen of Darkness and one of two gods in her universe, the other being her other half... figuratively.

Bent to the Dark whereas her brother Casper abides the Light, Marisa is an inherently corrupting influence on all she controls. She commands a terrible substance known only as Dark Corruption; it is able to infect and twist anything it touches, living or otherwise, bending it to Marisa’s will. With it, she can reanimate the fallen, create new and terrible monsters and destroy order in all its forms. Those that succumb to the Dark Corruption are forever trapped within its writhing tendrils, screaming in unison evermore as the Voices.

During the first ages of her realm, when the universe was young and the two gods had only just been created, Marisa was a different spirit. Although considered evil by her brother’s standards, she was reasoning, clever and merciful to her subjects, those that dwelled in the Dark naturally. However, Casper’s crusade against the Dark forced Marisa to retaliate, but the Dark is always chased by the Light; she knew she didn’t stand a chance in a straight fight against the beacon of Light. And so, she began scheming in her desperation to save herself and her subjects, creating the first flecks of Dark Corruption in her experiments. It was able to latch onto matter, using it to replicate, and more importantly, it was able to form a thick crystalline shell to resist the Light.

With her new weapon ready, Marisa unleashed it against her brother’s followers. The wailing screams of those assimilated by the deadly black entity echoed around the universe, further fuelling both itself and its master. Casper’s cast iron grip on countless worlds crumbled overnight, plunging many into eternal darkness and ravaging many more. Marisa watched with glee as her followers claimed the territory, devastating the Light in the process. However, the Dark Corruption had a terrible side effect, unforeseen to its master.

The twisted souls of the damned assimilated by the Dark Corruption formed a writhing mass within its blackened heart, gathering enough potency to directly influence the Dark Goddess herself. Over eons, the Voices drove Marisa mad, crumbling her peronsality and compromising her absolute control over the Dark Corruption. The Voices now controlled her as much as she controlled them, creating a tug of war that unleashed the Dark Corruption’s full potential... and this time, no-one was spared. Even the servants of the Dark were slain and assimilated, tearing much of the universe asunder in the process.

Only a few places remain untouched now, clinging to the Light as best they can. Casper tries his best to shield them from the unholy evil spreading across the stars, ever in search of more victims. Riding upon it is Marisa, the Queen of Darkness. Splintered mind, splintered souls, forever fighting for control over the godly form.

#not a gemsona for a change hahah #oc #oc art #marisa #dark corruption

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nestofstraightlines · 4 years

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I’ve been thinking almost constantly about His Dark Materials lately. All sorts of ideas and theories.

But one of the more straightforward thoughts is: Phoebe Waller-Bridge as Marisa Coulter.

I read a quote from PWB that for her – like for me! – HDM was absolutely formative and she even wrote to Philip Pullman asking to play Lyra if they made a film!

I have some serious Feelings around the idea of Marisa van Zee (as might or might not be her maiden name) as a kind of Fleabag-ish person who grew up in a different society and met with different circumstances.

If Fleabag has this sense of a woman trapped within a performance of herself, an intelligence and a heart that can’t connect and how that fucks her up… imagine how that same nature might manifest in Lyra’s world.

One of the things with the screen Mrs. Coulters is that they are both fairly squarely in the ice queen femme fatale camp, and I always saw Mrs. Coulter as being much more likeable, charming and apparently accessible than that.

So:

She met the love of her life in her very early twenties when she had just gone up to Cambridge, and it might just have been one of those passions of youth when everything is the Greatest Romance of Our Ages, but they were young and clever and pleased with themselves and delighted with each other and would find ways verging on the reckless to trip each other up in formal settings for the joke of it, and maybe it was a girl, or maybe it was a scholarship student whose father was only a grocer, but one way or another it was never going to be allowed to become marriage. But that was all right, marriages were a political game anyway, and they were both ambitious. And then the person got sick and stupidly, it was only influenza, died.

Charm grew up around the numbness like a pearl. She went to a great many parties and talked to a great many people. Hopeless at pretending equal earnestness at the men who tried to have earnest conversations, a sardonic twitch always threatening to tug her mouth into a helpless grin. She’d long since found out that being funny wasn’t much of a tool but finding other people funny, men funny, could be powerful and the wonderful thing was she did find them funny. Utterly absurd.

She fell out of the habit of talking to her daemon. He just didn’t seem very interested. And she married the powerful and rich and humourless Edward Coulter who was one of those men quite prepared to believe all women are mercurial enigmas and was pleased to find someone so free of moody depths.

She hadn’t felt a single thing in the three years since going down from Gyrton and then she met Asriel and then she did feel: she hated him.

Time for another great loss. The pregnancy was easy. She was back on track. Something else had been moving her in her affair with Asriel. She didn’t know what (but the night Lyra was conceived she had gone to the bathroom after and seen in the mirror her face was wet with tears). But this she was in control of. Either the child could pass for Coulter’s or it would not, in which case she made leisurely, exacting plans to feign a miscarriage.

It was an intellectual exercise really; she didn’t image her husband would enquire beyond the distasteful report of a stillbirth.

She had expected a few tears from herself again at parting with the child, but found it was easier even than that.

Only someone – and it bothered her immensely, more than anything else in the whole affair, that she never did find out who – told Edward Coulter the truth, and then he surprised her by being really quite murderously angry about it.

Marisa prodded at the thought of his rushing to Oxfordshire to find and kill her little baby in its hiding place and felt a pang, and behind it a buzz almost like excitement, and felt bad about it, and pleased that she had the grace to feel bad.

And then it all worked out. Edward was killed. Asriel who she had rather worried – not hoped, no, worried was the word – might propose some kind of absurd domestic arrangement never appeared and by and by she heard he was terribly cross with her, and she felt her old uncontrollable grin at how seriously men took themselves.

So the baby lived and she didn’t have to feel terrible or wonder why she didn’t feel terrible, and she never had to have anything more to do with her, never could have anything more to do with her, which was fine.

She congratulated herself on not being sway to distracting emotions, and poured a buzzing energy she didn’t know the origin of into laughing and smiling her big tomboyish smile at life, at the men of the Magisterium. They kept being so good to her, after all. She was their favourite kind of woman. Transparent, ambitious and ruthless and un-pious, slightly vulgar, really, but all the better to see her and control her when needed.

Her daemon had stopped responding to her remarks altogether by now.

And then Marisa found herself – quite unplanned, of course – in a position when the baby in Oxfordshire must be what, 11 years, 8 months and 17 days old now? that it occurred to her that she could take that child, what fool name had they given her Lyra Lyra Lyra that she wasn’t even allowed to hold and wouldn’t that show them how powerful she was? Show herself – them that no one could touch her?

Why she could tell the child she was her mother if she wanted – but no, when she thought that the suffocating sense of a needing, sucking little beast came to her – no, better to be a sister, an aunt, a kindly employer. She could love like that, without confusing the child with needing to love back. She could mould her and make her and send her to her own college, Gyrton, a very good place, where Marisa had lov –

And one day when they were taking tea at that smart little place she used to with –

(It was very odd, her brain kept getting distracted by irrelevant thoughts, and every time it happened her daemon would give her a look like he’d been startled by static electricity)

She could say to Lyra, ‘Darling I’m afraid I have a confession to make and you’re going to hate me terribly. It’s all about where you really come from, you see.’

And Lyra – was her hair blonde or more brown? It was a gap in the daydream – would cast her own can’t-stay-serious look back at her and say, ‘Oh - yes? What could that possibly be - mama?’

She was looking forward to how much they were going to laugh together, awfully.

#His Dark Materials #Marisa Coulter #Mrs. Coulter #Northern Lights #The Golden Compass #Phoebe Waller-Bridge

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lovelikeelena · 6 years

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Song of the Sirenas Review 2/4

Again, muchas gracias to everyone who helped me with the visual aspects of the movie-including my best friend, Rebecca and DisneyNerd andDisPrincess3! I also wanna give a big thank you to the hosts of the MagicWithIn podcast!

Here is the second part of my Song of the Sirenas review! I hope everyone enjoys it!

Part 2

When we last left our girl, her familia, girlfriend and amigas, they were travelling to nueva vista to visit a cousin who hadn’t contacted them since Elena was released from the amulet and Isa and their abuelos from the painting. Hmmm, there’s no way this could go wrong…

Arriving in Nueva vista, Elena and co hear welcome bells. They admire the palace and Elena is happy they have finally arrived. Just wait a few hours, Elena. You’ll be wishing you had declined Christobal’s invitation. A few miles away, the sound attracts the attention of Shuriki and her minions. Shuriki is annoyed and demands to know what the sound is. Fiero explains and deduces Elena must have arrived. Shuriki declares this will be a familia vacation the crown princesa will never forget.

Back outside the castle, Elena, her familia, girlfriend and friends are greeted by Christobal. Elena receives flowers and is shocked to see how her cousin has aged. She starts to remark on it when Esteban throws in a jab while throwing Elena under the carriage in the process. Thankfully, Christobal takes it like a champ. Esteban, they can still leave you in nueva vista when they go home. Just keep that in mind, dude. Elena is swept up into a hug and spun around by her cousin. She tells him she missed him, and he returns the sentiment. He explains they’re throwing a festival de liberdad to honor Elena for defeating Shuriki. Elena painfully reveals the truth about Shuriki still being alive. Elena is assured by her primo that she has her familia to support her. They sing a song about times past and how they’re happy to be together now, “Familia Forever.” Too bad Christobal is lying through his teeth. Afterwards, they all sit down to a feast. Elena sits next to Naomi, hoping to patch things up with her girlfriend. Christobal asks about their voyage. Esteban doesn’t waste any time in telling their cousin about their run in with the sirenas. Christobal asks if they attacked their ship. Naomi answers confidently, “They were about to!” Elena gently puts a hand on her girlfriend’s shoulder in a gesture of forgiveness and counters with, “We don’t know that. I don’t remember them ever being a problem when I visited.” Christobal tells her that’s because her parents protected her from the truth. He explains that his Papa, Elena’s Tio was aboard a ship that was capsized by sirenas. Elena is surprised and saddened by the news. Christobal vows that if he could, he’d lock every single sirena up in the tower. Keep that in mind for later, guys. He then offers everyone a snack. Don’t eat it! It’s probably poisoned!

Meanwhile, we go back under the waves to Coronado, Marisa and Marzel’s home. They enter the palace and the throne room, Marisa calling out to their father. King Pescoro wastes no time in revealing to his children that he knows what happened on the surface thanks to Daria, their reef commander. Marisa confirms it, but then pleads her case pretty well. She explains the princesa of Avalor was aboard the ship and she thinks she would listen. Daria counters Marisa’s proposal of attempted peace with Humans by saying, “After her guards harpoon us.” Marisa rebuffs Daria’s fears with, “What if her guards weren’t around? After all these years of conflict, isn’t it worth a try?” King Pescoro concedes that Marisa’s heart is in the right place, it always is. “But heart alone cannot change the world.” Marisa tries again, but her father firmly tells her to leave it alone, calling her mija in the process. “For your own good.” Marisa nods, but then appeals to her mother, reminding her that she was once Human herself. “You know more than anyone how much we have in common with them.” Queen Camilla takes a gentler approach with her daughter. “If I thought it were possible to make amends with humans, I’d try. But I know them too well.” She also warns Marisa to stay away from Humans and their ships. Marisa nods, frowning in defeat. Before leaving, Daria’s octopus’ friend, Ocho, waves at the teens as though saying, “Bye-bye!” LOL! The siblings swim out of the throne room, Marzel jabbing at Marisa, “I hate to say I Told you so.” Marisa, being the cooler sibling, comes back with “No you don’t.” she then declares she’s going to talk to Elena anyway. Marzel reminds her of their father’s warning, but Marisa dismisses him by saying, “I respectfully disagree.” With that, she swims off. Marzel sighs in frustration and swims after her to make sure she doesn’t get hurt. In doing this, he demonstrates why I Love him so much! While Marisa is my favorite of the sirena siblings, I really love them both.

I wanna take a second and talk about King Pescoro. I appreciate how Silvia and Rachel made him different from another mer-king and father we know. He didn’t scream or shout at Marisa after finding out she disobeyed him. He was firm yet loving in the way he told her to leave well enough alone. It’s clear he loves her and just wants to keep her safe. It says a lot that he doesn’t scream and alienate her from coming to him in the future. That’s the mark of a good parent.

Meanwhile, Shuriki and Fiero are pouring over a map when Victor and Carla arrive on a very familiar looking horse according to my sighted friends. Let’s think…did they stop over in Cordoba and steal Pedro? I could so see Carla using her female whiles to persuade Alonzo to lend them his horse. Carla complains to Shuriki about the time it took to get there due to the sorceress keeping Cruz to herself, but she is quickly shut down by her father. I so can’t wait for Carla to turn on him! Fiero declares now that they’re all there, they can get started.

We switch to the skies where Skylar, Luna and Migs are flying across the kingdom. Skylar exclaims he can’t wait to surprise Elena. They run into Shuriki and go to warn Elena she’s there. Elena thinks they should postpone the parranda, but Christobal disagrees. He assures her she’ll be safe. Elena reluctantly agrees but decides to scout the parade route. Mateo offers to go with her and I groan. Elena can handle herself. She has her scepter. Fortunately, Elena is soon alone on the trail. She is walking along the canals when all of a sudden, her attention is caught by singing. Her eyes glow blue and she starts walking in a trance towards the ocean’s edge. Once there, it’s revealed Marisa is the one using her power of song to guide Elena to where she is. Once Elena reaches her destination, Marisa releases her from the trance. This proves Marisa has control and restraint. Elena comes out of it dizzy and puts a hand to her forehead. Glancing down, she gasps upon seeing Marisa, along with Marzel and the horse dude. Elena raises her scepter and threatens to use it. Marisa tells her not to be afraid and introduces herself, her brother and the seahorse dude. She explains they just wanna talk to her. Pulling herself out of the water, her fins turn into legs seconds later, as do her brother’s. Elena is surprised and asks if all sirenas can do that. Marisa reveals just her and Marzel have that capability. Marisa almost falls upon walking and Elena catches her. Marisa explains she hasn’t been on legs in a long time. Marzel scoffs and asks his sister “What’s so hard about walk…” before promptly falling backwards into a barrel. What’s that saying? Pride goeth before the fall, buddy. Marzel puts on a cool air to save face and swiftly pulls a bucket off of his head. Elena asks what Marisa wants to talk to her about. Marisa is completely honest in her explanation, which makes me love her all the more. She doesn’t try to paint herself or the rest of the sirenas in a good light. She’s honest and forthcoming with the terrible things they have done, while at the same time regretful. Through a beautiful and powerful song called “A New Tale,” Marisa reveals her story while pleading with Elena to help her end the fighting and bring peace between Humans and sirenas. Can I Love Marisa any more than I already do? YES! This song is very timely for today’s world. Just go on youtube and give it a listen-especially the chorus. Once Marisa is done singing, she asks for Elena’s help, but our girl is hesitant and rightfully so. I’m glad Silvia and Rachel took this route. It makes Elena even more relatable. Elena explains about her tio and Marisa is sympathetic, but again also honest with her answer. “I wish I could undo the past, but all I can do is give you my promise that those days are long gone.” Elena guardedly believes her but lets her know they have to convince Christobal since he’s in charge of nueva vista. Marisa encourages Elena to bring Christobal to the canals, so she can convince him. Elena agrees and goes to get him. After explaining to both of her primos what happened outside, she pleads with Christobal to hear Marisa out. He agrees. This is where I started getting the feeling that Christobal wasn’t all he seemed. Arriving back at the canals, Elena advises the guards to stay back so they don’t scare the sirenas off. Calling out to Marisa and Marzel, she is relieved when they appear. She introduces them to Christobal. Marisa holds out her hand in greeting and my heart breaks while simultaneously skipping a beat bc I knew something bad was about to happen. Sure enough, Christobal’s true colors are revealed when he orders his guards to capture the sirena siblings! Elena protests, ordering him to stop! Again, someone else plainly ignores her direct order. Seeing this, Elena takes matters into her own hands. As a net traps Marisa, Elena frees her, allowing Marisa to swim to safety and catch up with Marzel. Once both sirena siblings are out of harms way, Elena rounds on her primo. Our girl is taking no prisoners or excuses! She is royally pissed off and rightly so! She demands to know why Christobal tried to capture Marisa and Marzel. She reminds him the sirenas came to discuss peace. Christobal in turn reminds her that sirenas lie to which Elena defends her new friends by saying, “I don’t think that’s what they were trying to do!” Christobal states that she just met them, and he’s dealt with them his whole life. He reminds her of his father and says he doesn’t want to lose her too, giving her a hug in the process. Elena begrudgingly tells him she understands and follows him back to the palace. I wanna stop here and point something out. Elena heard Christobal verbalize his desire to lock every sirena up, but yet she took him to meet two innocent sirenas? Really, Elena. I’ll give her a pass here bc she probably thought her primo was just angry and would calm down and see reason in time. Meanwhile, back under the waves, Marzel angrily states that Elena set them up. Marisa defends her new amiga, reminding her hermano Elena looked just as surprised as them. Marzel snaps at his Hermana to grow up! “Humans hate our kind and always will!” With that, he swims away.

Meanwhile, later that night, Elena is tossing and turning and whimpering. She’s clearly feeling guilty for what happened to Marisa and her brother. I just wanna hug her! Miel, it wasn’t your fault. Both of your primos are selfish, pig headed jerks! Soon you might discover you have distant familia-including a new prima and primo who will NEVER hurt you like Christobal and Esteban. The day of the water parranda has arrived. Elena is trying to be upbeat for Isa, but she isn’t successful. Our poor girl is extremely tired, scared to face Shuriki again, along with worrying about Marisa and Marzel. Her grandmother asks her if everything’s okay, to which Elena lies and says she’s fine. Christobal announces as the guest of honor, Elena will ride on the last float. Gabe insists Elena ride with him, Naomi and Mateo in case something happens. Christobal reluctantly agrees. He then tells them not to get in the way of the people seeing their princess. Elena, just hit him with your scepter. Isabel observes that it seems like the whole city showed up. She looks so excited and it’s sweet! Elena tells Naomi and the others they need to keep a sharp look out for Shuriki. Mateo assures her if the sorceress is here, they’ll spot her. Unless Mateo spends the whole time looking for sirenas! As the floats start to move, we see Elena has someone looking out for her. Marisa watches and sighs sadly as the floats continue down the canals. I have a feeling she is returning the kindness Elena extended to her the day before. I was wrong, it is possible for me to love Marisa even more than I did before!

Soon after the parranda gets underway, Elena is shocked to see several citizens dressed up as Shuriki! Naomi tries to reassure her future wife that the costumes are for the parade. Okay, Naomi, you get one point from me for effort. Mateo asks how they’re going to find the real Shuriki and I roll my eyes. Uh, maybe looking for someone with her appearance, sitting on a jaquin. And LOL! Suddenly, Gabe spots Victor and Carla in the crowd. And this is where I get on Gabe a little. He just said no more than five minutes ago he wanted Elena with him in case anything happened. Clearly something’s happening, and he leaves her on her own. She can handle herself and has her scepter, but I digress. Elena, being the awesome leader she is tries to remain calm, so she doesn’t cause city wide panic. Suddenly, Christobal shoots a cannon of confetti, some of it gets in Elena’s eyes. A few seconds later, the person driving the float veers off course. Elena asks why they’re turning into a side canal and gets no reply. Once the float stops, the driver jumps off, leaving Elena alone. It isn’t long before Fiero appears, followed by the last person our girl wants to see. Shuriki informs Elena that her appearance is no mask while whipping out the scepter of night. Elena says blaze at the same time Shuriki yells inferno! Elena tries to make herself vanish, but it doesn’t work all the way. Shuriki brings her out of it by yelling chaos. Fiero gets in a good hit, which destroys the float. What were you saying about all our city’s resources, Christobal? That’s crappy craftsmanship if you ask me! It’s not long before Elena is blasted into the water by Shuriki, losing consciousness and her scepter in the process! And that’s where I leave everyone for now. Part 3 is coming soon! Feel free to comment in an ask or send me a message!

#Elena of Avalor #Song of the Sirenas

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yainterrobang · 6 years

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What new YA books release this week? (January 2)

What January YA books release this week? We have a list of this week’s new YA books!

U.S.

As You Wish by Chelsea Sedoti Publisher: Sourcebooks Fire Release date: January 2nd Madison is a small town on the road between nothing and nowhere. But Eldon wouldn’t want to live anywhere else, because in Madison, everyone gets one wish—and it always comes true.

Batman: Nightwalker (DC Icons #2) by Marie Lu Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers Release date: January 2nd Before he was Batman, he was Bruce Wayne. A reckless boy willing to break the rules for a girl who may be his worst enemy. Meanwhile, the Nightwalkers are terrorizing Gotham City.

Before I Let Go by Marieke Nijkamp Publisher: Sourcebooks Fire Release date: January 2nd When her best friend, Kyra, dies unexpectedly, Corey knows something is wrong. With every hour, her suspicion grows. The entire community of the town of Lost is keeping secrets―chilling secrets.

Between the Blade and the Heart (Valkyrie #1) by Amanda Hocking Publisher: Wednesday Books Release date: January 2nd Valkyries have one great responsibility: to return immortals to the afterlife by slaying them. But when Malin discovers that her mother spared the life of an immortal, her world is thrown into chaos.

Busted by Gina Ciocca Publisher: Sourcebooks Fire Release date: January 2nd When ex-frenemy Kendall asks Marisa to spy on her boyfriend, TJ, she quickly discovers the girl TJ might be falling for is Marisa herself. And worse? The feelings are quickly becoming mutual.

Chainbreaker (Timekeeper #2) by Tara Sim Publisher: Sky Pony Press Release date: January 2nd Clock mechanic Danny Hart knows he’s being watched. But by whom, or what, remains a mystery. To make matters worse, clock towers have begun falling in India, though time hasn’t Stopped yet.

A Conspiracy of Stars (A Conspiracy of Stars #1) by Olivia A. Cole Publisher: Katherine Tegen Books Release date: January 2nd Octavia longs to study the natural wonders of Faloiv. When she gets her chance, she’s overjoyed. But after witnessing one of the indigenous people of Faloiv attacked, she knows the Council is hiding something.

The Cruel Prince (The Folk of the Air #1) by Holly Black Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers Release date: January 2nd Ten years ago, Jude and her sisters were stolen away to the High Court of Faerie. Jude wants nothing more than to belong there. To earn her place, she must defy Prince Cardan –and face the consequences.

The Dark Missions of Edgar Brim: Monster by Shane Peacock Publisher: Tundra Books Release date: January 2nd After vanquishing the terrible creature that stalked the aisles of the Royal Lyceum Theatre, Edgar Brim and his unusual crew of friends discover that their mentor has been murdered.

Don’t Cosplay with My Heart by Cecil Castellucci Publisher: Scholastic Press Release date: January 2nd When Edan’s cosplaying, she can be angry and loud for once. But when her personal life starts to spiral out of control, Edan has to figure out whether she has the strength to be the hero of her own story.

Everless (Everless #1) by Sara Holland Publisher: HarperTeen Release date: January 2nd In the kingdom of Sempera, time is currency. When Jules discovers that her father is dying, she knows that she must return to Everless to earn more time for him before she loses him forever.

The Forgotten Book by Mechthild Glaser Publisher: Feiwel & Friends Release date: January 2nd Emma finds a book that makes anything she writes in it comes true. But the power of the book is not without consequences, and Emma realizes she isn’t the only one who knows about it.

Gunslinger Girl by Lyndsay Ely Publisher: Jimmy Patterson Release date: January 2nd Serendipity Jones inherited two things from her mother: a pair of six shooters and perfect aim. She’s been offered a life of fame. But the price she pays for her freedom may be too great….

Hamilton and Peggy by L.M. Elliott Publisher: Katherine Tegen Books Release date: January 2nd When a flirtatious aide-de-camp to General Washington named Alexander Hamilton writes an eloquent letter to Peggy asking for her help in wooing the earnest Eliza, Peggy is drawn into the Revolution.

Ink by Alice Broadway Publisher: Scholastic Press Release date: January 2nd From birth, every moment is immortalized on your skin. After her father dies, Leora finds solace in the fact that his skin tells a wonderful story. Until she glimpses a terrible mark on the back of his neck…

Love and Other Train Wrecks by Leah Konen Publisher: Katherine Tegen Books Release date: January 2nd Noah is a hopeless romantic. Ammy doesn’t believe in true love. After a train-wreck first encounter between the two of them, Noah and Ammy have no other option but to travel together.

Meet Cute edited by Jennifer Lynn Armentrout Publisher: HMH Books for Young Readers Release date: January 2nd Whether or not you believe in fate, or luck, or love at first sight, every romance has to start somewhere. MEET CUTE is an anthology of original short stories featuring tales of “how they first met”.

Pretty Dead Girls by Monica Murphy Publisher: Entangled Teen Release date: January 2nd The most popular girls in school are turning up dead, and Penelope Malone is terrified she’s next. All the victims so far have been linked to Penelope—and to the boy with a rumored dark past.

Runaways by Christopher Golden Publisher: Marvel Press Release date: January 2nd Turns out murderous Super Villains don’t make for good parents. The Runaways had no choice. They had to kill them. Well, more or less. Now Nico, Karolina, Gert, Chase, and Molly are on the run again.

Someone to Love by Melissa de la Cruz Publisher: Harlequin Teen Release date: January 2nd Constantly in the spotlight thanks to her politician father’s rising star, Olivia Blakely feels the pressure to be perfect. But the need to look good on camera and at school soon grows into a struggle with bulimia.

Together at Midnight by Jennifer Castle Publisher: HarperTeen Release date: January 2nd Kendall and Max witness a tragic accident in New York City during the holiday season. Racked with guilt, the two accept a dare to perform random acts of kindness to strangers.

The True Queen (The Imposter Queen #3) by Sarah Fine Publisher: Margaret K. McElderry Books Release date: January 2nd As Kupari grows increasingly unstable, Ansa and Elli, two young women on a collision course with destiny, must find a way to save the realm and their people from total destruction.

Turn it Up by Jen Calonita Publisher: Scholastic Press Release date: January 2nd The Nightingales are in a serious funk. Bradley Academy’s all-girl a cappella group used to be the pride and joy of the sunshine state, but the Nightingales have fallen out of harmony.

You’ll Miss Me When I’m Gone by Rachel Lynn Solomon Publisher: Simon Pulse Release date: January 2nd There’s one thing that could wreck twins Adina and Tovah’s futures: a genetic test for Huntington’s. When the results come in, one twin tests negative for Huntington’s. The other tests positive.

U.K.

The Fandom by Anna Day Publisher: Chicken House Release date: January 4th Violet and her friends are at Comic-Con. They can’t wait to meet the fandom of The Gallows Dance. What they’re not expecting is to be catapulted by freak accident into their favourite world – for real.

Mike by Andrew Norriss Publisher: David Fickling Books Release date: January 4th Mike’s different. Floyd seems to be the only one who can see him. But Mike must have appeared for a reason and finding out why is perhaps the most important thing Floyd will ever do.

Shell by Paula Rawsthorne Publisher: Scholastic UK Release date: January 4th Lucy, a teen diagnosed with terminal cancer wakes up cancer-free. What if you thought you had died, only to wake up to find that your brain and eyes had been transplanted into someone else’s body?

#ya lit #ya books #a conspiracy of stars #before i let go #chainbreaker #you'll miss me when i'm gone #new releases #weekly releases

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lacommunarde · 6 years

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I got tagged by @princessprouvaire, thank you, love!

Rules : List ten of your favorites female characters in ten different fandoms and then tag ten people.

All the women I like in things are badass and strong enough personality-wise to shape their section of the plot around them. They are not content to sit on the sidelines and sigh. They will be there taking agency and making things around them happen. I also tend to like older women more than younger ones, but there are exception, of course.

1. Lyra Belacqua from The Golden Compass. She can go in and bullshit anything without showing fear. She bullshitted (bullshat?) a bear and he believed her. She is badass and just decides to do things that most other people would be scared of or consider impossible.

2. Ellen Ripley from Aliens - “Get away from her, you bitch!” Ellen Ripley is afraid and brave and talks back to xenomorphs and takes care of others and herself while still being emotional.

3. Max from Black Sails - Max is the Queen of Nassau and is so much better at running it than Eleanor “has-never-made-a-good-decision-in-her-life-but-is-still-badass” Guthrie. She is a smooth talker who wears amazing clothing and is really good at running the Nassau spy network and the Nassau Street.

4. Dr, Julia Odgen from Murdoch Mysteries - Julia is beautiful, poised, and charming and a doctor in turn of the century Toronto, and the head of a hospital at one point, then the head of a psychiatric facility that is actually working to have people recover. She and Murdoch are also the absolute cutest. They have dates that involve them trying to eat at a fancy restaurant and trying to have a normal date conversation and then they just start to talk about the case and various facts she’s learned or he’s learned about death, medicine, or crime and inventions. She is such a nerd and I love her so much.

5. Christina Scofield from Prison Break - What we know of her personality, she is utterly terrifying, the chess master, poised and deadly, the one who seemingly cares about nothing. What we don’t know about her personality, I have borrowed from Marisa Coulter from The Golden Compass for my headcanon, because I love this character type (and because the similarities between their characters are actually pretty significant, also because Christina Scofield/Aldo Burrows basically have the same relationship dynamic that I call ‘terrible people being terrible’ as Marisa Coulter/Lord Asriel).

She was 16 when she had Linc, 19 when Aldo left her to do more Company business (I think he was already in the Company before, and just left to do more), 20 when she had Michael, and 31 when she left her kids and faked her own death and moved into the Company, from there she worked her way up to being head research doctor and chemist of a multinational company and friends when several heads of state.

I picture that Aldo must have left the Company and moved into anti-Company stuff around the time that Christina faked her death. The Company thought she might know where he was and approached her. Finding she did not and quite frankly did not give two shit where he was, they proceeded to threaten her. She laughed in their faces and offered her genius to them instead, telling them that she’d be more than happy to spend it whiling away at some hospital or at the WHO instead if they didn’t want her. They took her on the spot and helped her fake her own death. Then she just walked out of her kids’ lives for twenty years.

She is not a nice person. She is not a good person. But she is one of the characters who refuses to sit on the sidelines.

6. Sabriel from Sabriel, part of the Abhorsen sequence - Because, ahhhhh!!!! She is so scared and yet so brave in taking on what she takes on. And she is badass in what she takes on.

7. Mme. Defarge from The Tale of Two Cities musical - “The butcher is idle, when people are starving, but it won’t be long till there’s another kind of carving. Look into the future, and what do you see there, and if you do nothing, can you guarantee we’ll be there?” - I just want to introduce her to UN WOMEN and the women’s NGOs and have her give reports on gender based violence to the UN Human Rights Council. She would enjoy that a lot. She and Ernest love each other so much. And she engages in the Revolution (which is very important to my enjoyment of a character, women are by being given duties over feeding their families and over their children’s well-being in so many countries around the world, automatically more aware of how politics effects their everyday lives than men are (all else being equal)). So she is very involved in the Revolution.

8. Savi from Ilium - She is amazing. Jewish badass woman who kickstarts the plot.

9. Diana Prince from Wonder Woman

10. Mystique from Xmen Comics or X1 and X2. (I have major issues with her as Charles’ little sister. How could they? This is Irene Adler erasure! This is 60 years of their relationship erasure! this is Mystique being genderqueer erasure!)

Tagging anyone who wants to do it!

#me #badass female characters

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bewareofchris · 7 years

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The Atomic Clusterfuck 1:10 - 1:20 + Bucky needs a nap.

+ SAM IS THE ONLY INTELLIGENT PERSON IN THIS MOVIE. "He said like two sentences and now we're like bros with this homocidal maniac?????"

+ Again, why was Howard transporting this stuff? Alone? With his wife?

+ I like that The Winter Soldier is like a big ass ghost story and they meant Bucky but it turns out there were lots of other equally impressive killers that weren't even part time popsicles.

+ STEVE. YOUR ARROGANCE. IS. THE. REASON. THIS. HAPPENS. Because unlike you having no ability to believe Tony no matter what he says, Tony would believe you. Anyone would believe you. Sure the Accords probably wouldn't let him help but AT VERY LEAST, Tony would believe you. Also why does Sam dislike Tony so much?

+ Tony has 36 hours and he flies to New York.

+ That Hulk on our side/do you really think he'd be on our side/No exchange there was the only time in the whole movie that I believed what Natasha and Tony were saying. But the fact that Tony doesn't think Bruce who is his pal above all the others wouldn't be on his side probably means maybe they're on the wrong side.

+ T'Challa is not Team Iron Man (as advertised). He's Team Kill Bucky. Natasha is Team Steve but I'll Sign the Accords.

+ oh lord, it's Peter. I'm about to lose some friends.

+ But before that, I love Robert Downey Jr and Marisa Tomei are being cute together. I just need all of you folks that want Tony to be Peter's Dad to find the romcom that RDJ and Marisa Tomei were in together. It's ok, you can retcon Peter's parents because Marvel does it with everything they can.

+ also, I love Marisa Tomei. She's perfect.

+ I just have to say that why on earth would you fly to Queens to scare the hell out of a teenager by almost outing him to his Aunt and then invite him to join your team of superfriends when he's not even old enough to sign something like the Accords, knowing that he'll be facing off against genetically enhanced individuals, one of which just tried to shoot you in the face? Oh. Right. Because the plot needed you to.

+ I have no problem with Tony knowing Spiderman exists or giving him a suit in this movie. My soul problem is the manipulative way he gets Peter's help, the fact that he endangers the kids life while lying to Peter's parental figure/legal guardian and this isn't somehow portrayed as a shitty fucking thing to do.

+ in the same movie where superheroes are being forced to be accountable for superheroing, Tony is employing superhero logic to justify his actions. I'll just straight kidnap a kid to join the superfriends! And there will be no reprucussions because we're all superheroes.

+ If I was Aunt May and I found out Tony Stark took my kid under false pretenses I would probably become a super villain in my quest to kill him. Then maybe I'd have a talk to my child about how he has super powers and didn't tell me.

+ Thing is, Peter sounds much, much more like Steve than he does Tony. Tony wants accountability and wants to change his legacy. Peter and Steve want to do the right things because they are the right things to do.

+ Teenager: I can't go to Germany Grown Ass Man: ...*rolls eyes, continues on with his life, advises the teenager to lie to his legal guardian.*

+ I'm not saying anything bad about Tony, I'm just very upset with the writing choices here. There was no logical reason that Tony should do any of this other than Marvel needed to fill out the rosters and they wanted to introduce Spiderman for his new movie. I'm not over here saying that Tony intentionally endangered this kid (but he did) because he's a Terrible Person. I'm saying the person who wrote this was probably told Peter had to be introduced and he was doing his best but the expectation that you just throw a LITERAL CHILD into a situation this volatile is stupid.

+ also, lets go back up to the American Dreamsicle and his "tony wouldn't believe us/wouldn't help" bullshit. Fuck all that noise. If you could pull your head out of your fabulous ass for like 1 minute, you could think this through properly. Call Natasha? Call anyone. Things don't always have to escalate, Steve.

#MCU Rewatch #The Atomic Clusterfuck

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lia-nikiforov · 7 years

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Ok if you hate the anime that's fine, I personally am not a fan of the changes they made, but unless you've read the manga I would not jump the gun on "the mangaka is clearly a mysoginist" , because the bey animation staff took out a good chunk of female screening time (mainly shizuku's perspective), and added unnecessary perverted scenes (old man and marisa) not to mention they took out a very important scene of chinatsu herself stating the flaws of the ballroom dancing partner system early on

I’ve heard this explanation a lot, and although I do believe there are adaptation issues that have exacerbated problems in the manga, those problems were already there.

Unless you’re gonna tell me Sengoku never calls Shizuku a skank?

That Gaju never makes fun of Mako for having a flat chest, causing her to have body insecurities that are then played for laughs even though it’s a horribly humiliating moment for her?

That the whole story never bends itself over backwards to put all the blame on Shizuku for the Tenpei cup stint when she had every right to be angry at Hyodo?

In the manga, do Sengoku, Hyodo and Gaju ever apologize for the garbage way in which they treat Shizuku and Mako?

Are there no fatshaming jokes about Banba in the manga?

In the manga, does Sengoku not immediately give Tatara all the credit for Mako’s victory in the Queen award?

Does the manga never say that women have to be “controled” and that the female dancer’s skills are irrelevant since it’s only the male lead that matters?

Does manga Chinatsu not get belittled and criticized for lacking femininity?

If those things happen in the manga then I’m sorry to tell you, the manga hates women, treats its females characters terribly and basically robs its females characters of all credit and agency, like they’re just a pretty accessory to be shown off whose entire existence revolves around the men in their lives rather than the fierce competitors they should be portrayed as.

Bonus: Is the homophobic scene with the Russian guy not present in the manga?

You can like the show (or the manga) and that doesn’t mean you share those hateful sentiments, but they are present in the narrative and you can’t blame it all on the anime, except for making those problems harder to ignore.

#ask #anon #Anonymous

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Since @boyonetta and @nostlenne have already done so, I figure it’s time for an update. So here comes...

Nebula Guild Lair Playlist (Volume 1, because not everyone in my lair is quite to the point where they have fitting theme songs)

Melusine - “The Elemental Stars” (Motoi Sakuraba)

Ludwig - “Ram Village Theme” (Yuka Tsujiyoko)

Tiamo - “Laverre City” (Junichi Masuda, Hitomi Sato)

Valerie - “Mahalo Trail” (Junichi Masuda, Hitomi Sato)

Gungnir - “Whirlwind” (Hirofumi Murasaki, Morihiko Akiyama, Masayuki Nagao)

Audric - “Duty” (Hiroki Morishita, Rei Kondoh)

Miel - “Dusk Falls” (Hiroki Morishita, Takeru Kanazaki)

Minerva - “Destiny” (Hiroki Morishita, Rei Kondoh)

Glyph - "Sol Sanctum” (Motoi Sakuraba)

Brock - “Strike the Earth!” (Jake Kaufman)

Thalassa - “The Legend Comes to Life” (Shinji Miyazaki)

Neptune - “The Planets VIII - Neptune, the Mystic” (Gustav Holt)

Tianlong - “Electric Battle” (Shinichiro Nakamura)

Silver - “Air’s Rock” (Motoi Sakuraba)

Will - “Ema Skye ~ The Scientific Detective 2016″ (Noriyuki Iwadare)

Glycon - “Operation Under Way” (Manabu Namiki, Noriyuki Kamikura)

Alicante - “Glittering Cave” (Junichi Masuda, Hitomi Sato)

Marisa - “Professor Juniper” (Shota Kageyama, Go Ichinose, Hitomi Sato, Junichi Masuda)

Malvis - “Everything Changes” (Sheila Brody, Patrick Frankfort, Dee Roscioli)

Blackthorn - “Mt. Pyre” (Junichi Masuda, Go Ichinose)

Harmonia - “Musical - Field” (Shota Kageyama, Go Ichinose, Hitomi Sato, Junichi Masuda)

Contralto - “Il était un roi de Thulé” (Charles Gounod, Maria Callas)

Winternight - “Snow Queen’s Theme” (Hidehito Aoki, Kenichi Tsuchiya)

Vanille - “Unfaltering Hands” (Manabu Namiki, Noriyuki Kamikura)

Rigel - “Hospital of Hope” (Atsushi Kitajoh, Kenichi Tsuchiya)

Pavo - “Prelude” (Hiroki Morishita, Rei Kondoh)

Django - “Solar Boy Django” (Norihiko Hibino)

Diablo - “Stark Mountain” (Go Ichinose, Junichi Masuda)

Metis - “Yukino’s Theme (Persona 1)” (Hidehito Aoki, Kenichi Tsuchiya)

Nagi - “Past Light” (Hiroki Morishita, Takeru Kanazaki)

Wisp - “Far Dawn” (Hiroki Morishita, Takeru Kanazaki)

Lakhamu - “Vale” (Motoi Sakuraba)

Shu - “Terrible Beat” (Yuzo Koshiro)

Philemon - “Philemon’s Theme” (Ryota Kudoka)

Cyprian - “Empty Vessels” (Matthias Bossi, John Evans)

Jeanne - “Spear of Justice” (Toby Fox)

Sherik - “Solitary” (Hirofumi Murasaki, Morihiko Akiyama, Masayuki Nagao)

Strabo - “Path of the Divine Generals ~ Roy’s Challenge” (Yuka Tsujiyoko)

Perkunas - “The Sky Line” (Toshiharu Yamanishi, Takeshi Yoshida)

Whittaker - “A Lady’s Mirror” (Takeru Kanazaki)

Storm - “Wireless Tower” (Kenichi Koyano, Shigerou Yoshida, Keisuke Oku)

Azizi - “Another Medium” (Toby Fox)

Rachel - “Hero’s Theme” (Toshiki Konishi)

Susan - “Route 111″ (Junichi Masuda, Go Ichinose)

Achlys - “La Danse Macabre (The Lichyard)” (Jake Kaufman)

Zazie - “Paniola Town (Day)” (Junichi Masuda, Hitomi Sato)

Carlos - “Desert” (Norihiko Hibino)

Tina - “No Guts No Glory” (John van Tongeren)

Tulio - “Investigation ~ Middle Phase 2004″ (Noriyuki Iwadare)

Rennick - “The Imprisoned” (Masakazu Sugimori)

Fabian - “Truly Outrageous” (Britta Phillips)

Logan - “It’s a Hard, Hard Life” (Gordon Grody)

Capella - “Jam All Night Long” (Britta Phillips)

Eskil - “Kalos Power Plant” (Junichi Masuda, Hitomi Sato)

Beech - “Kolima Forest” (Motoi Sakuraba)

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There Were Zero Things Better This Week Than These Grandma Twins

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There Were Zero Things Better This Week Than These Grandma Twins

Welcome to Good Stuff, HuffPost’s weekly recommendation series devoted to the least bad things on and off the internet.

The best thing I saw this week was this photo of two old women I’m going to assume are twins because they look exactly the same and are wearing matching pink outfits. If I’m wrong, sue me.

Why do I like it? I don’t know. I just do. Maybe it’s been a so-so week, but I can’t think of anything else that has brought me more joy. Look at their outfits! The shirts! The glasses! The hair! Are those called shorts or pants? Who cares! I love them!

My colleague Ashley Feinberg described this photo as “fucked up,” claiming “there’s no way you get to 80 and still keep buying matching outfits with your twin without something being extremely fucked up.” She is wrong. Sometimes two cute twins (presumably) are just two cute twins (presumably).

Do you know these twins? I would like to interview them. Thanks. ― Maxwell Strachan

Jonathan Chait’s BOFA Tweet

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On July 12, in the year of our Lord 2018, at 10:51 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time, persecuted white man Jonathan Chait tweeted three perfect words: “What is BOFA?”

BOFA, as any self-hating internet user knows, is “bofa deez nuts.” It is the “What’s ‘updog’” prank, only vastly stupider and consequently infinitely funnier whenever an unsuspecting target takes the bait. Jonathan Chait took the bait, and the result was more beautiful than any of us could have ever hoped to deserve.

Jonathan Chait, however, deleted his tweet — the tweet in which he asked, “What is BOFA?” — and deprived us of our constitutional right to dunk on Jonathan Chait. Just one more example of illiberal deplatforming from the radical left.

Anyway, congratulations to the remarkably damp Jonathan Chait on giving brief, beautiful life to a perfect tweet. We should all be so lucky. ― Ashley Feinberg

Sweet Soccer Boys Sharing Gentle Hugs

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This week I wanted to recommend hate-watching (or more like “confused-watching”) Fox’s nightly special “World Cup Tonight,” but my editor made me turn it into a standalone blog.

Instead, I will recommend a more healing aspect of the World Cup spectacle: watching the beautiful boys of soccer comfort and celebrate with each other through emotional embraces. Jezebel’s Sheena Raza Faisal saluted these loving clinches in a very on-point post that features not quite enough images of man hugs ― check the comments for more, especially England manager Gareth Southgate soothing Colombia’s Mateus Uribe after Uribe missed a crucial penalty kick in a shootout against England.

Boy, it sure is dusty in here, etc., etc. ― Claire Fallon

Glynnis MacNicol’s New Book

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After hearing Glynnis MacNicol talk about her new memoir, Nobody Tells You This, at the Strand in New York City, I’ve had this one sentence stuck in my head. When asked about the plight of unmarried, childless women and our society’s treatment of them as somehow other or incomplete, MacNicol hit back with a statement that resonates with me still: “We look at women as a problem in need of a solution.”

In her book, MacNicol draws attention to the ways strangers feel they have a right to women’s bodies and lives in service of the ultimate goal, motherhood. The shame around it all, the general lack of freedom or agency, is really frightening. Although I have yet to read Nobody Tells You This, I’m excited to. And I’m ready to recommend it as a refreshing take on what life can be like for women who choose not to do what is expected of them. ― Anna Krakowsky

The Birth Of Kulture

Kulture ❤️❤️anything else woulda been basic 💁🏽‍♀️💁🏽‍♀️💁🏽‍♀️Okrrrrr

— iamcardib (@iamcardib) July 12, 2018

Cardi B had the baby and her name is Kulture with a K. That’s self-explanatory Good Stuff. ― Julia Craven

When June Smacked The Shit Out Of Commander Waterford On “The Handmaid’s Tale”

In a moment when it feels like terrible men are trying to whittle away women’s rights on a near-daily basis, sometimes you just really want to see a lady righteously smack the shit out of a dude who deserves it. Enter the “Handmaid’s Tale” finale!

June (Elisabeth Moss), who has spent two seasons being psychologically tortured, raped and belittled by Commander Fred Waterford (Joseph Fiennes) ― a man who desperately wants to be powerful and desperately wants the approval of women he knows are better than him ― finally stops bottling up her rage and lets him have it, right across the face. I could watch this GIF on repeat for the next two years. ― Emma Gray

England’s Loss

WATCH: Mario Mandzukic scores the game winning goal in extra time to put Croatia in its first ever World Cup Final. #ENGCRO #WorldCup pic.twitter.com/dnRpjSNPHo

— Jurado (@JuradoNYC) July 11, 2018

It’s not coming home. LOL. ― Travis Waldron

The Enya Song In “Eighth Grade”

You know a movie’s good when an Enya song pops up in a pivotal scene. But even without “Orinoco Flow,” Bo Burnham’s “Eighth Grade” would be an indie masterpiece ― one you should definitely, totally, run to the theater to see.

It follows “Most Quiet” superlative winner Kayla (Elsie Fisher) during her last week of eighth grade, as she tries to come to grips with her social anxiety and lackluster lifestyle before high school. Behind her phone, she’s confident, even funny. But in real life, Kayla is quiet, a loner. Burnham allows viewers to study her every move in a tech-obsessed world while contemplating their own adolescent memories. It’s beautiful, raw and utterly sweet. ― Leigh Blickley

Megan Amram’s Emmy-Nominated Web Series

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Please watch “An Emmy for Megan,” a hilarious and weirdly poetic exercise in doing the bare minimum, while remaining utterly extra. The concept is simple: Writer Megan Amram, best known for her work on “The Good Place” and Twitter, decides she reeeeally wants to win an Emmy Award. (It’s her favorite award!) So at the last minute, she decides to write, direct and star in a short web series about making a short web series to win an Emmy.

The six episodes, under 10 minutes each and created in the week leading up to the submissions deadline, use the constraints of the Emmy requirements like forms of meter and verse. There are tears and tantrums and alcohol-fused meltdowns and even a surprise MUTINY along the short (so short) way.

Amram’s feat is not only hilarious but effective. On Thursday, the series was nominated for two Emmys: Outstanding Actress in a Short-Form Comedy or Drama Series and Outstanding Short-Form Comedy or Drama Series. Don’t sleep on the most inspiring tale of our time. ― Priscilla Frank

A Podcast About A Cult

When I was a kid, my best friend’s name was Robin, which was kind of weird because my mom’s childhood best friend’s name was Robin. The difference between my Robin and my mother’s Robin (aside from their being entirely separate humans) was that the latter ended up in a “Wild Wild Country”-ish cult.

My mom told me the story of her friend’s descent into Cult Town, U.S.A., and the teen girl power rescue mission that boldly extricated her a million times. Everything about it fascinated me. For a while, I actually thought it was a cosmic inevitability that my Robin would end up in a cult from which I’d need to liberate her. Anyway, she didn’t. But “The Gateway” is a good podcast about a cult. ― Katherine Brooks

Road Trip Music

Over the past few years, there’s been renewed interest in the work of John Fahey, the instrumentalist who put American primitive guitar on the map. As the genre has surged in popularity, acolytes and like-minded explorers have come out of the woodwork. Specialty labels have reissued private-press recordings that had long since gone out of print. It seems as though every town had an uncelebrated devotee of these obscure, mystical tunings. Worshipful but questioning, celestial and homespun, primitive guitar uses repetition and drone to access the pleasures and enlightenment of devotional music.

In April, Fahey’s hometown of Takoma Park, Maryland (just outside D.C.), honored the genre he helped create with a multiday festival. Lauding his work, it also shone a light on others who followed a similar path, devoting years to decoding the light and limber picking of Mississippi John Hurt and replicating the primal thump of Reverend Gary Davis. It was only fitting that one of this generation’s best pickers showed up ― Marisa Anderson, a guitarist based in the Pacific Northwest.

Anderson recently released a new album, “Cloud Corner,” which should be her breakthrough. She does something that I think most Fahey followers miss. She captures his melancholy, favoring mood as much as speed and technique. Her songs put you in places and moments. One song off an earlier album, she has said, is a tribute to her favorite swimming hole in Kentucky.

The new record lands on weightier subjects like the Syrian refugee crisis while other tunes process Tuareg-style playing through her fuzzy, electric style. But mostly, the songs ring clear, notes hushed or plucked pure. The album is meant for one of the few modes of escape where we can all still worship in peace: the road trip. ― Jason Cherkis

And Finally, The Women Of Color Who Dominated The Emmy Noms

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Sandra Oh was nominated for her role in “Killing Eve.”

This week in Good Stuff for me was the plethora of amazingly talented women of color who got Emmy nominations for best and supporting actress, including Sandra Oh (the first Asian woman to be nominated for lead actress in a drama), Tracee Ellis Ross, Issa Rae, Zazie Beetz, Letitia Wright and my queen Thandie Newton. ― Zeba Blay

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Noticias de series de la semana: Ellen Pompeo es la actriz de drama mejor pagada

El sueldo de Pompeo

Ellen Pompeo ha renovado su contrato con ABC para dos temporadas más de Grey's Anatomy, de las que será productora. Con el aumento incluido en este nuevo trato, se convierte en la actriz de drama con el salario más alto, con 575.000 $ por episodio y más de 20 millones al año. Precisamente esta semana sabemos que Jennifer Aniston, Nicole Kidman y Reese Witherspoon cobrarán más de un millón por episodio en la segunda temporada de Big Little Lies o el drama sin título de Apple.

Renovaciones de series

Hallmark ha renovado Chesapeake Shores por una tercera temporada

Sky 1 no renueva Agatha Raisin por una segunda temporada. Acorn TV lo hace en su lugar.

FOX ha renovado 9-1-1 por una segunda temporada

Amazon ha renovado The Tick por una segunda temporada

Freeform ha renovado Grown-ish por una segunda temporada

Cancelaciones de series

Spike ha cancelado The Shannara Chronicles tras su segunda temporada

Amazon ha cancelado Jean-Claude Van Johnson tras su primera temporada

Amazon ha cancelado One Mississippi tras su segunda temporada

Amazon ha cancelado I Love Dick tras su primera temporada

Incorporaciones y fichajes de series

Paul Bettany (Manhunt: Unabomber, The Da Vinci Code) está en conversaciones para interpretar al príncipe Philip en la tercera y cuarta temporada de The Crown.

Eva Longoria (Desperate Housewives) hará de ella misma en un episodio de la cuarta temporada de Jane the Virgin.

Marisa Tomei (Empire, Crazy Stupid Love) participará en un episodio de la segunda temporada de The Handmaid's Tale interpretando a la esposa de un comandante.

Mira Sorvino (Mighty Aphrodite, Mimic) será la agente de la NSA Rebecca Stroud en la tercera temporada de StartUp.

Andie MacDowell (Four Weddings and a Funeral, Bad Girls) será Ivy en la cuarta temporada de Cuckoo.

Alec Baldwin (30 Rock, Saturday Night Live), Blythe Danner (Meet the Parents, Gypsy) y Sara Rue (Popular, Impastor) volverán a ser Malcolm, Marilyn y Joyce en Will & Grace.

Antony Starr (Banshee, American Gothic), Dominique McElligott (The Last Tycoon, House of Cards), Chace Crawford (Gossip Girl, Blood & Oil), Jessie T. Usher (Survivor's Remorse) y Nathan Mitchell (iZombie) protagonizarán la adaptación del cómic The Boys. Serán Homelander, Queen Maeve, A-Train, The Deep y Black Noir.

Scoot McNairy (Godless, Halt and Catch Fire) será Tom, un padre que sufre una terrible pérdida, en la tercera temporada de True Detective.

Ryan Michelle Bathe (This Is Us) será Celeste, la última exmujer de Eddie (Forest Whitaker), en la cuarta temporada de Empire.

Shannon Kook (Degrassi: The Next Generation, Shadowhunters) participará en la season finale de la quinta temporada de The 100 interpretando a un misterioso personaje.

Tessa Ferrer (Grey's Anatomy, You're the Worst) será la esposa del doctor Felix Babineau (Jack Huston) en la segunda temporada de Mr. Mercedes.

Chai Hansen (The 100, Mako Mermaids) será Jordan Kyle, un nuevo amigo de Simon (Alberto Rosende), en la tercera temporada de Shadowhunters.

Jimmie Saito será recurrente en Sweetbitter como Scott, el segundo chef del restaurante.

Will Yun Lee (Falling Water, Hawaii Five-0) participará en varios episodios de The Good Doctor interpretando a Alex Park, un antiguo policía que decidió convertirse en médico.

Nicole Ari Parker (Time After Time, Rosewood) y Stefania LaVie Owen (Chance, The Carrie Diaries) serán recurrentes en la segunda temporada de I'm Dying Up Here como Gloria Whitfield, productora de Soul Train; y Amanda Robbins, la hija de Goldie (Melissa Leo).

Seamus Dever (Castle) será recurrente en Titans. Se desconocen detalles.

Vandit Bhatt (Ripped) será recurrente en la tercera temporada de Quantico como Jagdeep 'Deep' Patel, nuevo miembro del equipo.

Rupert Friend (Homeland, The Young Victoria) será Ernest Donovan, el vecino de Jack Parsons (Jack Reynor), en Strange Angel.

Martin Clunes (Doc Martin) protagonizará Warren (BBC One), escrita por Paul McKenna (Brotherhood) y Jimmy Donny Cosgrove, sobre un pedante conductor de autoescuela que piensa que el mundo está en su contra.

Malcolm-Jamal Warner (The Cosby Show, Malcolm & Eddie) y Catherine Dyer (Stranger Things) serán recurrentes en The Resident como el cirujano AJ Marino y la enfermera Alexis Stevens.

Sarah Baker (Young Sheldon, Big Little Lies) se une como regular a The Kominsky Method. Será Mindy, hija de Sandy (Michael Douglas). Susan Sullivan (Castle, Dharma & Greg), Emily Osment (Hannah Montana, Young & Hungry), Graham Rogers (Quantico, Ray Donovan), Ashleigh LaThrop (Fifty Shades), Jenna Lyng Adams (Uncle John), Melissa Tang (Mom, The Goodwin Games) y Casey Brown serán recurrentes como Eileen, esposa de Norman (Alan Arkin); y Theresa, Jude, Breana, Darshani, Margaret y Lane, alumnos de Sandy.

Nikohl Boosheri (Adena) y Stephen Conrad Moore (Oliver) han sido ascendidos a regulares de cara a la segunda temporada de The Bold Type.

Keiynan Lonsdale (Wally West) pasará de The Flash a Legends of Tomorrow como regular.

Pósters de series

Nuevas series

Kristen Wiig (Saturday Night Live) protagonizará una comedia, aún sin título, en Apple. Creada, escrita y producida por Colleen McGuinness (30 Rock, Friends from College) e inspirada en 'You Think It, I'll Say It', unas historias cortas de Curtis Sittenfeld, estará producida por Reese Witherspoon.

HBO y Apple están interesadas en Demimonde, creada y escrita por J.J. Abrams (Fringe, Lost), sobre una adolescente que, mirando los experimentos de su madre en el sótano, descubre otro mundo que libra una batalla contra una fuerza monstruosa.

Syfy ha encargado diez episodios de The Outpost. Trata sobre Talon (Jessica Green, Lightning Point, Red Billabong), la última superviviente de la raza Blackblood, que sale en busca de los mercenarios que han masacrado a su pueblo y descubre que tiene poderes sobrenaturales que ha de usar para derrotar a un dictador fanático religioso. Completan el reparto Robyn Malcolm (Top of the Lake), Kristian Nairn (Game of Thrones), Jake Stormoen (Extinct, Mythica), Andrew Howard (Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., Bates Motel) y Anand Desai-Barochia.

Universal desarrolla el drama Confessions of a Sociopath, basado en la novela de M.E. Thomas (2013) y escrito y protagonizado por Lisa Edelstein (House, Girlfriends' Guide to Divorce), sobre una mujer diagnosticada como sociópata que debe aprender a vivir con su nueva situación.

Freeform prepara el encargo de serie del drama épico Cleopatra, de Michael Seitzman, sobre la primera mujer en convertirse en faraona en medio de un triángulo amoroso.

Universal desarrolla The Boss of It All, adaptación de la película de Lars Von Trier (2006).

Freeform desarrolla el reboot de Party of Five, esta vez centrado en cinco hermanos mexicanos que deben sobrevivir al ser deportados sus padres.

La adaptación de 'Fire and Fury', la novela de Michael Wolff sobre Donald Trump, busca cadena. Wolff produce junto a Endeavor Content.

ITV ha dado luz verde a Anne, drama de cuatro episodios escrito por Kevin Sampson, el autor de 'Hillsborough Voices', sobre una madre que quiere saber la verdad tras la tragedia de Hillsborough, la muerte de 96 hinchas durante un partido de fútbol.

Showtime encarga la limited series Secure and Hold, basada el reportaje de Gabriel Sherman sobre Roger Ailes, escrita por Tom McCarthy.

Facebook Watch ha encargado diez episodios de Sacred Lies (título provisional), basada en el cuento de los hermanos Grimm 'The Handless Maiden' / 'La doncella sin manos' y la novela de Stephanie Oakes 'The Sacred Lies of Minnow Bly' y adaptada y modernizada por Raelle Tucker (True Blood, Supernatural), sobre una adolescente sin manos que escapa de una secta y es detenida bajo sospecha de conocer quién mató al líder. Dirigida por Scott Winant (True Blood, Californication). Produce Blumhouse TV.

Crackle encarga Office Uprising, comedia sobre un trabajador de bajo rendimiento en una gran fábrica de armamento que descubre que sus compañeros han sido armados con una bebida energética diseñada para uso militar.

Netflix emitirá la serie de Telemundo Nicky Jam: El Ganador, una serie protagonizada por el propio cantante que contará su vida desde sus humildes comienzos en Boston.

Peter Kosminsky (The State, Wolf Hall) escribirá y dirigirá The Undeclared War, drama de diez episodios sobre una guerra cibernética en una Guerra Fría ambientada en la actualidad, para Channel 4.

Fechas de series

Breathe llega a Amazon el 26 de enero

Sundance Now estrena This Close el 14 de febrero

Everything Sucks llega a Netflix el 16 de febrero

Shoot the Messenger se estrena en WGN America el 26 de febrero

Heathers llega a Paramount Network el 7 de marzo

El estreno de Instinct en CBS se retrasa del 11 al 18 de marzo

The Mechanism llega a Netflix el 23 de marzo

La segunda temporada de Famous in Love se estrena en Freeform el 4 de abril

La segunda temporada de The Handmaid's Tale se estrena en Hulu el 25 de abril

La segunda temporada de Brockmire se estrena en IFC el 25 de abril

La cuarta temporada de Good Witch llega a Hallmark el 29 de abril